The Portland daily press., 1887-07-14

gathered in the lines to the seaboard, and
then lease. or in some other way. take con
troll OF the whole. Instead Of great New
England corporation, we shall have great
British corporation. The Boston & Maine
OF course declare that nothing Of. this sort is
planned; they say that the charteg Of the
Canadian Pacific does not allow 1t t0~lease
roads outside Of the Dominion. But that
charter could be amended. And even IL the
Boston & Maine does not intend TO lease the
great system which it Is trying TO get, 10 the
Canadian Pacific, It may be forced to. Only
the best management can make so great
system as the Boston Il Maine is reaching
after profitable. III hard times come, and
the management becomes embarrassed, what
will it do? The only thing win be to SELL
To whom? The only possible customer, the
great Canadian Pacific that stretches along
north Of u.s."
This is a sketch Of the results, some GER
tain and others expected, that are talked Of
in the event Of the success of the Hazen bill.
Should the Hazen bill fail. and the other
alternative. the Atherton bill, he passed,
there win be results equally interesting. both
to New Hampshire and to the city Of Port
land, the owner Of the Portland & Ogdens-
burg.
The Atherton bill is intended to rescue the
Boston, Concord and Montreal from the Bos-
ton 4 Maine, and consolidate 1t with the
Concord, Northern, Concord and Claremont,
and perhaps Nashua & Lowell into a great
corporation that shall be distinctively
poration. 1t will reach from Groveton, (and
possibly further rorth If extension is made
from Groveton) and Fabyans to Wells River
and thence through Weirs to Manchester.
Portsmouth and Nashua, while over towards
the west it will reach Keene, Claremont and
White River Junction. With the Central
Vermont IL will hold communication to the
North and West. The Boston & Maine will
still have the st. Johnsbury & Lake Cham
plain and the Passumpsic; it will have also
its great seabord lines. But between the
two, as the Lowell people here reckon it, 1t
will have no communication. The back of
the great system will be broken in two.
From the north 1t can reach down as far as
Lunenburg. Wells River and White River
Junction; from the seaboard IL can reach up
as far as Conway, Alton Bay and Nashua
But to get from Conway to Lunenburg it
must pass over the Portland Il 0gdensburg
and Boston, Concord Il Montreal (Which
would be part of the new corporation con
.emplated by the Atherton bin; to get from
Alton Bay to Wells River. 1t must pass over
the Boston, Concord & Montreal; and to get
from Nashua to White River Junction it
must pass over the Concord & Northern.
There will still be Boston IL Maine road
between the 0gdensburg aud the West, but
there will also be the ogdensburg or the
New Hampshire corporation between the
Boston & Maine and the West.
This is the way the Concord people reckon
it. The Boston & Maine managers here de-
clare that even If the Hazen bill is defeated
the Boston Il Maine will, nevertheless, have
the Northern road, as the latter win lease It.
self to the Boston Il Maine, in preference to
the Concord combination. The Concord
people say that If the Atherton bill passes
the Boston 81 Maine cannot get the Northern
by any fair means. But even should the
Boston Il Maine get the Northern road, ii
would be small part Of the magnificent sys-
tcill ~ 10 uOW ItdCHlub ullcEs
Whether the Boston & Maine may get an
outlet to points beyond the Hudson BY way
Of the Central Massachusetts, or by building
line from Greenfield to White River juno
tion, thence using the Passumpsic, Is ques-
tion not involved in the present fight. There
have been reports that such moves might be
made in case Of defeat here.
On the present ghght depends whether the
Boston & Maine shall become the great
Northern New England Corporation, with
power to shut out the 0gdensburg at its own
pleasure; or whether it shall itself have
great New HAMPSHIRE rival, with power and
disposition, perhaps, to aid the 0gdensburg.
1t is impossible to say where the fight viii
eliminate in decisive movements. 1t Is now
dragging on at the rate of two hearings day.
President Sinclair of the Worcester, Nashua
4 Rochester railroad was on the stand last
night, and b. A. Kimball, director Of the
Concord today. To-nigh. Superintendent
Mullen Of the Boston 4 LOWELL was exam
ined. All the details Of railroad history for
the last four or FIVE years are examined and
some interesting facts are coming out. Sin
clairiwas forced TO tell how he and his
friends made cool half million or so in the
deal which put the Worcester. Nashua &
Rochester in the hands of the Boston q
Maine.
Ex-Gov. Smith, the railroad magnate, Of
Vermont, Is coming to watch the fight and
look out for the interests Of the Central Yer
mont.
Those best informed say the argument will
not be made before the 27th or 2sth Of July,